Left Bank
Subtitle: art, passion, and the rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
By: Agnès Poirier
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781627790246
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Intellectual life
Description: "An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. War was my master; title: The fall; title: The choice; title: The fight; title: The desire; title: II. Modern times; title: A philosophy of existence; title: Lust and emancipation; title: A third way; title: III. The ambiguities of action; title: How not to be a communist?; title: Love, style, drugs, and loneliness; title: Action and dissidence; title: "Paris's gloom is a powerful astringent"; title: IV. Sharpening the senses; title: "They owned art while we were just full of dollars"; title: Stimulating the nerves; title: Anger, spite, and failure; title: Vindicated; title: Farewells and a new dawn.